07-04-2004
rsync problem - space character in filename
I have a freebsd box with a smb connection to a Windows server - I use rsync to copy specific directories, and files, between the two.
The problem is the Windows box has files with space characters in their filenames and rsync fails to copy these. Reading the documentation of rsync it appears it uses the space character as a delimiter.
Has anyone solved this problem? Another person suggested I take the output generated from this script and use awk to recursively call cp "filename with space" location - problem is I am new to Unix and have no idea how I would do this.
Any thoughts (and especially examples) would be greatly appreciated.
Tom
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rsync_selinux
rsync_selinux(8) rsync Selinux Policy documentation rsync_selinux(8)
NAME
rsync_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the rsync daemon
DESCRIPTION
Security-Enhanced Linux secures the rsync server via flexible mandatory access control.
FILE_CONTEXTS
SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type. Policy governs the access daemons have to these files. If
you want to share files using the rsync daemon, you must label the files and directories public_content_t. So if you created a special
directory /var/rsync, you would need to label the directory with the chcon tool.
chcon -t public_content_t /var/rsync
To make this change permanent (survive a relabel), use the semanage command to add the change to file context configuration:
semanage fcontext -a -t public_content_t "/var/rsync(/.*)?"
This command adds the following entry to /etc/selinux/POLICYTYPE/contexts/files/file_contexts.local:
/var/rsync(/.*)? system_u:object_r:publix_content_t:s0
Run the restorecon command to apply the changes:
restorecon -R -v /var/rsync/
SHARING FILES
If you want to share files with multiple domains (Apache, FTP, rsync, Samba), you can set a file context of public_content_t and pub-
lic_content_rw_t. These context allow any of the above domains to read the content. If you want a particular domain to write to the pub-
lic_content_rw_t domain, you must set the appropriate boolean. allow_DOMAIN_anon_write. So for rsync you would execute:
setsebool -P allow_rsync_anon_write=1
BOOLEANS
system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy settings.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>.
SEE ALSO
selinux(8), rsync(1), chcon(1), setsebool(8), semanage(8)
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